NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.10-4
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.65% (80th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-TIFF-405184
- published 25 Sep 2018
- disclosed 13 Sep 2018
Introduced: 13 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-17000 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
tiff
to version 4.0.10-4 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff
package and not the tiff
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
A NULL pointer dereference in the function _TIFFmemcmp at tif_unix.c (called from TIFFWriteDirectoryTagTransferfunction) in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows an attacker to cause a denial-of-service through a crafted tiff file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable tiffcp.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17000
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4670
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00026.html
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2811
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00041.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105342
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-17000
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-1/